Advantages: High balanced protections and decent health at full stacks.

Disadvantages: Requires stacking to gain protections, which can be detrimental to lane pressure in slower modes such as Conquest.

Restrictions: None.

Discussion: This is a pure defense item that provides high balanced protections, health, and some health sustain, along with a minor protection aura for nearby teammates. Although it has strong defensive stats, the requirement to gain stacks to increase protections means it is a bit weak before stacks are built. This can put adverse pressure on those building the item if they have to engage aggressive enemies at that stage of a match.

Should stack very quickly in teamfight modes where minion waves are always split between multiple teammates.

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Smite is an online battleground between mythical gods. Players choose from a selection of gods, join session-based arena combat and use custom powers and team tactics against other players and minions. Smite is inspired by Defense of the Ancients (DotA) but instead of being above the action, the third-person camera brings you right into the combat. And, instead of clicking a map, you use WASD to move, dodge, and fight your way through the detailed graphics of SMITE's battlegrounds.